Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!jpradley!shawn From: shawn@jpradley.jpr.com (Shawn Blair) Subject: Re: Coherent UUCP (uuxqt) Organization: NYC Public Unix Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 13:32:41 GMT Message-ID: <1991Apr15.133241.6584@jpradley.jpr.com> Keywords: UUCP uuxqt References: Sender: Shawn R. Blair In article lpape@ficc.ferranti.com (Lori Pape) writes: >I'm using uuxqt.310b from the mwcbbs... When I receive mail from >remote systems, uuxqt never executes to indicate I have mail. I >have it in crontab, to run every 5 minutes, but for some reason, >it is not getting kicked off. I can execute uuxqt manually & >have the mail delivered, however. I'm using Coherent's 310 mail >release. Any suggestions would be much appreciated, since I'm >pretty green at this stuff. > I had the same problem initially. My guess is that you're signed on as root when you execute uuxqt manually. Check the permissions on the uuxqt program. After uucp runs uucico, it executes uuxqt to process all remote requested commands. I ran "chmod 555" on uuxqt to solve the problem. One of the most common problems when running things from cron, such as uucp or mail programs, are incorrect permissions on files. To become more familiar with permissions review your docs for the chmod command and the uucp Permissions file (a uucp function). This could save you a lot of headache in the process of learning the system. shawn shawn@jpr.com >Lori Pape >lpape@ficc.ferranti.com > _______________________________________________________________________________ -- Shawn R. Blair -- -- shawn@jpr.com -- -- --